Senior Cloud Architect

Become a part of our caring community   The Senior Cloud Architect leads the design, engineering, and evolution of enterprise cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities with a focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role provides technical leadership for secure, scalable, resilient, and automated cloud solutions that enable application teams to build and operate modern cloud-native workloads. The Senior Cloud Architect works on complex technical challenges involving cloud architecture, platform engineering, automation, security, reliability, and governance. This role evaluates technology options, develops architecture patterns and standards, and collaborates across engineering, security, infrastructure, and application teams to deliver cloud platform capabilities that support business and technology objectives. The Senior Cloud Architect is responsible for the planning, design, implementation, and continuous improvement of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure, cloud-native services, and platform engineering capabilities that enable secure, compliant, and operationally sound cloud adoption across the enterprise. This role develops and implements architecture patterns, engineering standards, automation solutions, and reusable platform capabilities that improve developer experience, accelerate delivery, and increase platform reliability, security, and scalability. The Senior Cloud Architect evaluates cloud products and services, assesses integration requirements across interconnected technologies, and provides technical leadership for cloud platform initiatives and modernization efforts. The Senior Cloud Architect partners closely with cloud platform engineering, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, infrastructure, SRE, and application delivery teams to design and implement cloud solutions aligned with enterprise architecture principles, security requirements, operational standards, and business objectives. This role contributes to the development and adoption of cloud standards, reference architectures, governance controls, and platform best practices. The Senior Cloud Architect is expected to lead architecture and design activities for moderately complex to complex initiatives involving cloud computing, container platforms, automation, identity and access management, networking, observability, and operational resilience. The role provides technical guidance to engineering teams, helps resolve complex technical challenges, and drives alignment across stakeholders with varying priorities and requirements. The Senior Cloud Architect promotes modern engineering practices including Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation, cloud-native architecture patterns, policy-based governance, and platform engineering principles. This role helps ensure cloud solutions are secure, supportable, scalable, cost-effective, and designed to meet current and future business needs. The Senior Cloud Architect exercises considerable latitude in determining technical approaches and implementation strategies, works with minimal supervision, and influences architecture decisions through technical expertise, collaboration, and leadership. Use your skills to make an impact   Required Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline. 8+ years of infrastructure, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or architecture experience. 3+ years designing and operating public cloud solutions. 2+ years working with Google Cloud Platform or similar public cloud platforms. Experience designing large-scale cloud architectures in regulated enterprise environments. Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred). Experience with cloud platform engineering, automation, and self-service enablement concepts. Experience with Kubernetes platforms such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Experience designing and implementing CI/CD and automation solutions. Experience